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Domains Vision® is a website specially developed by Centerzero Domains to help you find the domain names that you want to use in your business or any personal activity with one of the highest degrees of accuracy in terms of availability. With Domains Vision® almost all the names shown as available are ready to register or can be purchased through a bid. For every name searched, you will be suggested either the straight name that you are searching or alternatives that you can register instead. You can also register the domain name that you are looking for in all the new generic top level domains (“not com” domain extensions) available for registration. The registration fees for any new domain extension are shown on each available name displayed. You can select the domain names that you want to register and purchase them through our Domains Vision online store immediately.

Should I register a new generic top level domain? A simple question that can’t have a simple answer. Are you ready for this major change?

A few years ago we wrote a couple of articles with tips and suggestions to choose a “perfect” domain name. You may have seen many versions of the article “Choosing the right domain name”.
It was 2006 and the internet landscape looked completely different, much simpler.
Just eight years ago, if you wanted to register a domain name to run your business, a personal blog, an online store, a social profile, or reserve a name for future purposes, you just needed to focus in the domain name and follow some basic tips regarding the name length, the use of dashes and numbers and avoid copyright violations to get a domain name easy to remember and “brandable”. Today with over 1000 (one thousand) new generic top level domain extensions released for registrations, things have changed…

The New gTLDs are here whether you like it or not

As we mentioned in a previous post, over one thousand new gTLDs are in the process of being launched during this year and 2015. The yearly fees for registration of these new extensions start at two times the cost of registering a Dot Com domain extension or higher.

In addition if you want to pre-register a new gTLD you can do it now, but in most cases if there’s more than one bidder for the name of your choice you will be taken to a private auction between all the bidders, it’s not a first come first served pre-reg. So you may end up paying more than what you expected for the registration and sometimes it’s not clear how much will you have to pay for renewals of this “premium-wannabe” name.

First all let us give you a big picture on new GTLDs. There are currently over 900 ( yes…nine hundred new domain extensions ) available for registration or pre-registration with yearly fees starting at two or three time the cost of registering a Dot Com domain extension…

The total number of registered domain names passed 250 million in the last quarter of 2012, and more than 6 million domain names were registered in the fourth quarter of 2012, bringing the total to 252 million worldwide. The basic dot com domains, make up the majority of registered domain names. By the end of December users had registered 106.2 million .com domains, as well as 14.9 million .net addresses. The .com and .net top-level domains (TLDs) also accounted for the majority of newly registered domain names. In total, 8 million .com and .net TLDs were registered during the fourth quarter of 2012. Additionally about 21 percent of .com and .net websites, are just one-page sites and 15 percent are registered but don’t point to a working site at all. Country code top-level domains grew 21.6 percent year-over-year to a total of 110.2 million domain names, with China driving quite a bit of this growth. (Source: Verisign).

What about new domain extensions? Well, according to Domain Incite, as of March 5, there were just over 200,000 domain names registered in the new gTLD extensions. ( this is around 0.08% of the total registered domains). Consider that an important amount of them where defensive registrations from Companies that run their business using the traditional dot com extension and some others that are registering for brand protection.

So, what about the idea that the new gTLDs will change the Internet forever? In the new internet era (with more than 1000 extensions), will shorter domains using new gTLD extensions become good brandable domains as well? And more importantly, will new domain extensions (assuming they run websites with relevant and fresh content) show up on top in search engines? These are some questions that still don´t have a concrete answer. And not having an answer at all, new gTLD’s should be considered a high risk investment.

We will start taking registrations for new domain extensions at Centerzero Domains very soon (it´s almost all set), however we suggest you follow some of the following tips:

If you happen to find a single character domain name (or up to two or three letters) it might be a good asset in the future.

Same applies for single word names (non brandable) that are related to your business.

If your domain name currently includes a word that equals the new domain extension, you can consider registering a shorter version of the domain name you are currently using. (example: if you own yourclub.com you might consider registering your.club)

Meanwhile there are still plenty of available dot com domains still waiting for your registration at a very convenient yearly price.